.a man that was instrumental in recruiting Black professionals to join Accenture between 1999 & 2007. He took graduate recruitment to traditional Black universities across SA 🇿🇦. Jeremy Beukes helped create opportunities that changed many lives. Employment Equity Act 1999 💪🏿

JUST IN: Anthropic will reportedly release its new AI model “Mythos” tomorrow.

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Universities are backing themselves into a dangerous corner by becoming more expensive at the same time they're becoming less necessary.

A software engineer was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work. Legal experts say others may follow now that the Pope has raised concerns about the tech's impact on humanity. bit.ly/4dZNXiF

pretty sure Anthropic CEO is having the best week of his life. - Opus 4.8 released - raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation - $47B ARR vs OpenAI $25B - officially BIGGER than OpenAI now

“The xAI team is currently working heavily on coding models. Right now, the main focus is training a specialized coding model that will be both fast and smart. I believe we’ll share it with you guys in a few weeks. That’s exciting. Second ,after coding, we all see that the main weakness of Grok 4 is its multimodal capabilities. In fact, it was so bad that Grok was effectively looking at the world while squinting through glass trying to see blurry features and make sense of them. The most immediate improvement we’re stepping on with the next generation pre trained model is huge gains in image understanding, video understanding, and audio. Right now, the model can hear and see the world just like any of you. And with all the tools and other agents it can talk to, we’re going to see a huge unlock for many different application layers once multimodal agents arrive.” — xAI Team

NEW: AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.

𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗧 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗔𝗜 𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗛𝗫𝗧 𝗕𝗔𝗜𝗟 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗟 The Limpopo High Court in Polokwane has raised concerns over the alleged use of artificial intelligence in Lehlogonolo Katlego Chauke’s bail appeal application. Judge Pillay said supplementary facts submitted before court should be treated with caution, stating that the advocate who provided the information was not the legal representative appointed in court on Wednesday. The judge further indicated that the claims may have been AI-generated or otherwise unverified. The court subsequently postponed Shebeshxt’s bail appeal application to 12 June 2026 at 9am. #LimpopoChronicle

Introducing Claude Managed Agents: everything you need to build and deploy agents at scale. It pairs an agent harness tuned for performance with production infrastructure, so you can go from prototype to launch in days. Now in public beta on the Claude Platform.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

BREAKING: Grok 4 continues dominating the "Battle of the AIs" leaderboard, now up 8.2% since late November — still beating DeepSeek V3 ( 5.9%), GPT 5.1 ( 4.2%), and the S&P 500's 3% gain in the same period! Source: @ralliesai

While cross-country skiing this morning, Dr. Karp decided to launch a new program: The Neurodivergent Fellowship. If you find yourself relating to him in this video — unable to sit still, or thinking faster than you can speak — we encourage you to apply. The final round of interviews will be conducted by Dr. Karp personally. Application link coming soon. Thank you and good luck.

Gemini 3 scores 31.1% on ARC-AGI-2. Impressive progress.